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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 11, Equilibrium - Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.
(b) Drinking and drug taking.
(c) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(d) Praying all day and all night.

2. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?
(a) Uprightness.
(b) Openness on a large scale.
(c) Frankness.
(d) All of these.

3. According to the author, reflection never reaches beyond what?
(a) A man being what he is.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Prayer.
(d) The power of marriage.

4. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?
(a) That God will give him the judgement to know when his wife is lying.
(b) That God will give him the patience to put up with his wife's nagging.
(c) That God will give him the strength to move on after his wife stops loving him.
(d) That God will give him the strength never to want to love another woman.

5. What does the author assert is more important than cultivating one's mind?
(a) Traveling widely.
(b) Gathering wealth.
(c) Cultivating one's garden.
(d) Developing one's personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?

2. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?

3. What does the author say an aesthetic representation requires?

4. Who is the only one who has a true conception of who he is according to the author?

5. What is the reader to understand about the content of Kierkegaard's letter?

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